FRANCE: Update of the Appendix to the guidelines for the delivery of approvals by ANSES

Published by Florence Dupeuble at 31 May 2018

ANSES has published an update of the risk-mitigation measures that appear the most frequently and that are described in the Annex to the Guidelines for the delivery of approvals of plant protection products and adjuvants on 02/04/2018. This update follows, inter alia, the publication of the Order of 4 May 2017 on the use of plant protection products and their adjuvants, repealing the Order of 12 September 2016.

The main changes are as follows:

Measures concerning residues and consumer exposure: two new measures to manage the risk of MRL exceedance for perennial crops
Measures concerning risks to the environment:
- Aquatic organisms:
  - New SPe 2 phrases relating to soil types, products to be incorporated into the soil, depth of sowing and wastewater discharges from off-ground greenhouses
  - New SPe 3 phrases for unsprayed buffer zone to water surface bodies for uses on potato
  - Unsprayed buffer zone to water surface bodies up to more than 100 meters
- Birds and mammals: new SPe 5 and SPe 6 phrases relative to treated seeds